Abstract: Treatise on Imāmī fiqh translated into Persian (see fol. 1b, l. 7), comprising 18 parts, from Kitāb al-ṭahārah to Kitāb al-qiṣaṣ.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather doublure. The spine and the edges of the covers have been repaired.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 161b).23 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Glazed dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves apparently wanting between fol. 8 and 9. Some leaves are mended (see fol. 1 and 2). Marginal notes. Inscriptions on fol. 1a. Seals on fol. 1a and 161b.Copied in 977 (colophon, fol. 161bisb).Incipit: الحمد لله العليّ الذّي اجتبى جيبة المجتبي واصطفى صفيه المصطفى ... وبعد پوشيده نماند كه بنابر اشارت واجب الطاعةExplicit: واكر قاتل ان متعدد باشند لازم شود بر هر يک کفاره کامل
az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.Lithographed.Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MHIn Persian.
az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.Lithographed.Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MHIn Persian.
Abstract: Illustrated Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, including a book of spells describing incantation and talismans, and 56 painted illustrations.Binding note: Blind stamped and tooled red leather.Ms. codex.Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. Sept.-Oct. 1906 by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. 1911 to 1921.Incipit: بسم ... بكير از زير قدم او يكمشت خاك واين جعارا هفت بخواند ... بسم ... اللهم اله السموات والارض اعجل اعجل اعجل ارجع ارجع ارجع حب الخير
Abstract: First volume of an anti-Christian polemic written by a convert to Islam who emigrated to Iran during the reign of Safavid Shāh Sultān Ḥusayn (r. 1694-1722). The text was originally written in a European language then translated by the author into Persian. The complete work is supposed to consist of four volumes; however, only the first volume appears to be extant (Āghā Buzurg, XXV, 179).Binding note: Limp brown leather with tooled fillets; spine reinforced with cloth.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.Physical description: 13-26 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on modern paper. Fol. 90a-95b written in purple ink; fol. 107-108 on lined paper. Rubrication in purple; catchwords on most pages. A few marginal notes. Paginated in Arabic script beginning on fol. 1a. fol. 97b blank, but no lacuna in text. Inserts between fol. 54-55, 105-106. Some leaves detached and edges of paper dog-eared.Origin: Copy completed 16 Shaʻbān 1346 H. 8 February 1928.Incipit: سپاس بىقىاس صانع بى نظىر را سزاوار است که گلستانجهان از آفتاب سنع آورده و بوستان فلک از اظهار موضوعات درىاى وجودش قطره ىست
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomy and astrology.Binding note: Dark brown leather over cardboards. Blind-tooled border.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-141a : Kifāyat al-taʻlīm dar ṣināʻat-i tanjīm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī.Contents: 2. fol. 142b-181b : Kitāb-i S̲amarah-ʾi Baṭlamiyūs dar aḥkām-i nujūm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī?.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the title of the first text in the collection.Physical description: European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 and 182 are later additions.Origin: According to colophons, copied in Shaʻbān 1232 June-July 1817 (fol. 141a, 181b)
Abstract: Treatise on medicine in two parts (see description of contents in the preamble of the text, fol. 3a-4b), also known as "Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī". The text is dedicated to Sulṭān Mujāhid al-Dīn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, i.e. Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Muẓẓafarī, ruler of Fars, 786-789/1384-1387, according to the Mashhad catalogue. Rieu suggests that the dedicatee is rather Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn of Kashmīr, 823-875/1420-1470. There is no evidence however that the laqab of the latter is Mujāhid al-Dīn (Storey, C. Persian Literature).Binding note: Half bound in paper and purple cloth.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin laid paper ; frame-ruled. Stained with water ; insect damage.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Origin: The copy is not dated. The paper and the script suggest the 19th cent.Incipit: يا فتاح رب يسر وتمم بالخير بسم ... شكر وسپاس مر خالقي را كه در خلقت انساني دقايق حكمت او بي پايانستExplicit: با عسل بر ذكر طلا كنند همين عمل كند والله اعلم بالصواب تمام شد
Binding: Splendid binding.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Folio 2b contains the minuscule signature of Rūzbihān the Illuminator على يد العبد روزبهان المذهب.Decoration: Two richly coloured pictures at the beginning; the first two pages of the text most luxuriously adorned in blue and gold; all the headings throughout beautifully illuminated.Hand: Very small, distinct, and clear Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Abstract: Treatise on Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān. According to the beginning of the text, in 27 books (kitāb), arranged according to the first and last letters of a word. Incomplete at beginning and end.Binding note: Black leather (peeling) with blind tooling and stamping. Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from spine label (horizontal).Physical description: 23 lines to the page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The script gets larger towards the end of the copy, and tends towards nastaʻlīq. European paper with watermark.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "326" (repeated in Western numerals on fol.1a).Beginning as extant: نسخه مسمى بكنز اللغات وبتوفيق قادر وهاب مرتبت بترتيب حروف ... اكنون بدانكه پيش از شروع در مقصود لا بد است از دانستن مقدمات چند اول انكه درين كتاب بقدر الوسعEnd as extant : ميخواند يغز وغزا ميكند يتموOther text on the margin on a similar topic (also incomplete at the beginning), with first bāb extant: باب الالف مع الالف انى واني واني ساعت والجمع انا انّا دريافتن كقوله تعالى غير ناظرين اناه